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The Democratic minority on a U.S. congressional committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, intend to defy the committee’s Republican leaders by releasing the transcript of a closed-door interview with a former senior aide to...

An 11-year-old Tennessee boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an 8-year-old neighbor girl. The Jefferson County sheriff said the boy, whose name has not been released, used his father’s 12-gauge...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday that, if elected, she would use the power of her office to curb gun violence if necessary. Expanding background checks and making it easier to hold negligent manufacturers and...

Conservative judges in the state of Alabama are resorting to a decades-old anti-civil rights law in order to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. According to the Associated Press, the state’s all-white legislature passed a law in...

Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford freely admits he’s a conspiracy theorist who believes the moon landing was faked and ISIS is part of a global plot to promote war. The 47-year-old spoke with Rolling Stone about his new band,...

An Amtrak passenger train hit debris from a rockslide and derailed in central Vermont on Monday, sending at least seven people to the hospital, officials said on Monday. The train, en route from St. Albans, Vermont, to Washington, went off the...

Air France-KLM’s human resources manager had his shirt stripped from him as he was “almost lynched” on Monday by workers protesting a plan to cut 2,900 jobs from the struggling airline. Bosses were unveiling a revamped...

Witnesses said over the weekend that a man died after an East Cleveland officer hit him with a police cruiser and then refused to perform CPR. According to officials, the officer was responding to an emergency call shortly before 10 p.m. on...

An Ohio court has upheld the suspension of a 12-year-old black boy for staring at a white girl at school in what he called a “staring contest,” Fox 19 is reporting. The unidentified student was suspended from a private Catholic...

Jason Chaffetz, a rising star among congressional Republicans, on Sunday declared a bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, complicating further an internal party struggle to replace John Boehner when he steps down. In a...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday said removing President Bashar al-Assad is the top priority in Syria. Clinton, speaking at a town hall meeting in Hollis, said the United States should pursue a diplomatic solution...

This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Room for Debate. Read the full discussion here. No sooner had the toll from the latest mass shooting been tallied than came the world-weary predictions that the carnage would have zero...

Twelve Pacific rim countries sealed the deal Monday on creating the world’s largest free trade area, delivering President Barack Obama a major policy triumph, a US Official said. The deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, led by the United...

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asserted on Monday that gun safety laws could not curb mass shootings because the real problem was “sin and evil.” During an interview on CNN’s New Day, the former Arkansas...

When a gunman killed eight students and a teacher at an Oregon college last week, he also revived a debate on the need to change firearm laws and whether the school’s “gun-free zone” policy only made easier for him. President...